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Film
Thursday, July 9 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
In brief, stark moments, Duncan Jones' movie makes plain how awful it is to be so solitary, how utterly impossible it is to consider this existence a "living."
Wednesday, July 8 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
Burma VJ articulates a circular, daunting, and inevitable logic: visibility = life.
Monday, July 6 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
In The Beaches of Agnès, the "game" of cinema is endlessly fascinating, as what was and what can be come together on screen.
Friday, July 3 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
Pablo Trapero's film slows down following the splattery whirlwind of plot pieces that gets Julia inside prison.
Wednesday, July 1 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
Sensational and turbulent, the relationship between John Dillinger and Melvin Purvis sold newspapers and attracted newsreel audiences. It was good for business.
By Renee Scolaro Mora
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs alters the pattern established by the previous two films, focusing not on the herd but on action-packed, 3-D adventure.
Friday, June 26 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
The gallant, educated, and sensitive outsider, will do right by Soraya, unlike the loathsome, fearful, and petty neighbors who killed her.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Chéri's saga of bad parenting ostensibly has to do with designs and rituals of love.
By Renee Scolaro Mora
If the adults in My Sister's Keeper are repeatedly compromised in the honesty department, the children seem to embody truth physically.
Thursday, June 25 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
Afghan Star explores this American Idol-like show's effects on singers, producers, and thrilled fans -- not to mention those who reject it as one more sign of debasing Western influence.
Wednesday, June 24 2009
By Renee Scolaro Mora
The cluttered storyline of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen amounts to a convoluted treasure hunt.
Friday, June 19 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
Dead Snow knows exactly what it is... a horror film with Nazi zombies as stars.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Whatever Works, a reported reworking of a 30-year-old script, is overtly old.
By Cynthia Fuchs
This strategy -- cutting away before a likely punchline -- is Year One's preferred mode.
By Renee Scolaro Mora
The troubling thing about Margaret's "punishment" is the implication that she deserves it in the first place.
Thursday, June 18 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
The documentaries of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival grapple with profound dilemmas, yet make their cases through deeply personal perspectives.
Friday, June 12 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
Nothing if not self-aware, this update of Joseph Sargent's 1974 thriller begins by rearranging the class dynamics.
By Tricia Olszewski
Away We Go is breezy and summer-appropriate -- but its central couple still has problems.
By Cynthia Fuchs
As Food, Inc. shows, these pretty, red, genetically engineered tomatoes are signs of a dodgy future already here.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Why anyone imagines children want to see Eddie Murphy's internal struggle may be the first question posed by Imagine That, but it's hardly the last.
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Monday, June 29 2009
By Chris Barsanti
Silverdocs 2009 was a rewarding and refreshing event, offering classic and independent documentaries and previewing several that will crop up over the next year or two on TV and art house screens.
Friday, June 26 2009
By Luke Z. Fenchel
Although it examines culpability and responsibility in service of truth and reconciliation, this film fails to address the structures of power, and arguably perpetuates the very atrocities that it sets out to condemn.
Tuesday, June 16 2009
By Christian John Wikane
The Boys in the Band defined a moment in LGBT history. Crayton Robey explores that history in Making the Boys, which debuted at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
Thursday, June 25 2009
By Thomas Britt
In recent history, the myriad commercial and social reactions to so-called Blaxploitation films made feasible the rise of a robust, intelligent, and independent black cinema in the US.
(more Pop Past)
Friday, June 19 2009
By Matt Mazur
Bergman’s need to honor, discover and examine his intrinsic connection to women is quite simple: all men are influenced by women.
(more Suffragette City)
Wednesday, May 27 2009
By Meta Wagner
Explorations of the outer limits of the patient/ therapist relationship titillate viewers with the possibilities of what could happen.
(more Vox Pop)
more DVD Reviews
Thursday, July 9 2009
By Matt Mazur
Clement’s near-perfect film and Wajda’s hugely influential title cannot salvage the validity of the collection as a whole.
By Bruce Dancis
This hard to find film has long had a notable reputation. Now all fans of solid acting and literate, topical screenplays can view it on DVD.
Wednesday, July 8 2009
By Ben Travers
Steve Martin’s 2nd stab at resurrecting a classic features broader humor and international star power -- but is it funny?
Tuesday, July 7 2009
By Terrence Butcher
This vibrant documentary casts light upon the duality of socio-sexual identity and identity politics.
By Sarah Hentges
Two rich documentaries that reveal the diversity of lesbian filmmakers as well as their common themes and experiences.
Thursday, July 9 2009
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